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Oh, we can't be this lucky... (Original Post) brooklynite Oct 2015 OP
Is her middle name Obtuse? KamaAina Oct 2015 #1
What next? Christine O'Donnell part duh? hifiguy Oct 2015 #2
Sadly she might get elected this time. n/m ProudToBeBlueInRhody Oct 2015 #3
Or she might make the GOP look like idiots, weakening Hortensis Oct 2015 #4
No No No Leith Oct 2015 #5
The 10 Most Ridiculous Sharron Angle Quotes (So Far) {w/emphasis added} Bucky Oct 2015 #6

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
4. Or she might make the GOP look like idiots, weakening
Wed Oct 21, 2015, 04:21 PM
Oct 2015

a fairly strong GOP contender for Harry Reid's seat. If Sharron actually won the primary, she'd then have to go up against our candidate. In any case, I agree. Please run, Sharron!

A couple happy remembrances (This stuff didn't go over well back then, and pretty much everyone is even more fed up now):

"You can make more money on unemployment than you can going down and getting one of those jobs that is an honest job, but it doesn't pay as much. And so that's what's happened to us is that we have put in so much entitlement into our government that we really have spoiled our citizenry and said you don't want the jobs that are available." -- Sharron Angle

"So that's what we want is a secure and sovereign nation and, you know, I don't know that all of you are Latino. Some of you look a little more Asian to me. I don't know that. What we know, what we know about ourselves is that we are a melting pot in this country. My grandchildren are evidence of that. I'm evidence of that. I've been called the first Asian legislator in our Nevada State Assembly." --Sharron Angle

LOL

Leith

(7,807 posts)
5. No No No
Wed Oct 21, 2015, 05:58 PM
Oct 2015

I barely made it through the last time she ran. What with Angle, Cliven Bundy, Michele Fiore, Joe Heck, and Dean Heller, we Nevadans are embarrassed enough.



Bucky

(53,936 posts)
6. The 10 Most Ridiculous Sharron Angle Quotes (So Far) {w/emphasis added}
Wed Oct 21, 2015, 06:09 PM
Oct 2015

This website posting is a few years old, but maybe it's due for an update.

http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/republicanquotes/a/Sharron-Angle-Quotes.htm



1.
"I hope that's not where we're going, but you know if this Congress keeps going the way it is, people are really looking toward those Second Amendment remedies and saying my goodness what can we do to turn this country around? I'll tell you the first thing we need to do is take Harry Reid out."
--Nevada GOP Senate nominee and Tea Party favorite Sharron Angle, floating the possibility of armed insurrection, interview with right-wing talk radio host Lars Larson in Portland, OR, January 2010

2.
"People ask me, 'What are you going to do to develop jobs in your state?' Well, that's not my job as a U.S. senator."
-–Sharron Angle, May 14, 2010

3.
"I think that two wrongs don't make a right. And I have been in the situation of counseling young girls, not 13 but 15, who have had very at risk, difficult pregnancies. And my counsel was to look for some alternatives, which they did. And they found that they had made what was really a lemon situation into lemonade."
--Sharron Angle, explaining why she is against abortion even in cases of rape or incest, July 8, 2010

4.
"We needed to have the press be our friend. We wanted them to ask the questions we want to answer so that they report the news the way we want it to be reported."
--Sharron Angle, during an interview with Fox News Channel's Carl Cameron, Aug. 2, 2010

5.
"We're talking about a militant terrorist situation, which I believe it isn't a widespread thing, but it is enough that we need to address, and we have been addressing it. My thoughts are these, first of all, Dearborn, Michigan, and Frankford, Texas are on American soil, and under constitutional law. Not Sharia law. And I don't know how that happened in the United States. It seems to me there is something fundamentally wrong with allowing a foreign system of law to even take hold in any municipality or government situation in our United States."
--Sharron Angle, claiming that Muslim Sharia law is taking hold in parts of the U.S., Oct. 2010

6.
"You can make more money on unemployment than you can going down and getting one of those jobs that is an honest job, but it doesn't pay as much. And so that's what's happened to us is that we have put in so much entitlement into our government that we really have spoiled our citizenry and said you don't want the jobs that are available."
-- Sharron Angle, on unemployment benefits, interview with KRNO, July 14, 2010

7.
"You know what I'm talking about. You're paying for things that you don't even need. They just passed the latest one, is everything that they want to throw at us now is covered under 'autism.' So, that's a mandate that you have to pay for. How about maternity leave? I'm not going to have any more babies, but I sure get to pay for it on my insurance. Those are the kinds of things that we want to get rid of."
--Sharron Angle, mocking the notion that health care coverage for autism treatment and maternity leave should be mandated, 2009 Tea Party rally

8.
"So that's what we want is a secure and sovereign nation and, you know, I don't know that all of you are Latino. Some of you look a little more Asian to me. I don't know that. What we know, what we know about ourselves is that we are a melting pot in this country. My grandchildren are evidence of that. I'm evidence of that. I've been called the first Asian legislator in our Nevada State Assembly."
--Sharron Angle, speaking to a group of Hispanic high school students, Oct. 15, 2010

9.
"When I said privatize, that's what I meant. That I thought we would just have to go to the private sector for a template on how this is supposed to be done. However, I've since been studying and Chile has done this."
--Sharron Angle, explaining why Social Security should be phased out in favor of a system resembling the one created in the 1980s by right-wing Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, Aug. 12, 2010

10.
"The Second Amendment is the right to keep and bear arms for our citizenry...This is for us...This is for us when our government becomes tyrannical..."
--Sharron Angle



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